“Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.” – Nina Simone
Famous Music Quotations
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. ― John Milton
The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars. – Independent Zen
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. – Aaron Copland
Without music, life would be a blank to me. – Jane Austen, Emma
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. – Igor Stravinsky
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. – Charles Darwin
It is not overstating the case to insist that the kinds of music you enjoy will demonstrate pretty much what you are like inside. – A. W. Tozer
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. – Haruki Murakami
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. – Plato
Music is my religion. – Jimi Hendrix
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music should be your escape. – Missy Elliot
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. – Martin Luther
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The power of music to integrate and cure… is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. – Oliver Sacks
Too bad people can’t always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn’t be any more wars. – Margot Benary-Isbert
Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Can a mere song change a people’s minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind. ― Elvis Costello
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. ― Tom Waits
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.’ – Kurt Vonnegut
It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once. – Nina LaCour
Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono
Music gives color to the air of the moment. – Karl Lagerfeld
Music is a supernatural force on the earth. It has the power to transform the heart and mind. – Kathy McClary
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death! ― Joss Stirling, Finding Sky
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. – Robert Fripp
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t. – Johnny Depp
My music isn’t just music—it’s medicine. – Kanye West
That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons. ― Dave Grohl
The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with – nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life. – Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. – Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. – E.Y. Harburg
Country music is three chords and the truth. – Harlan Howard
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. – Billy Joel
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. – Albert Einstein
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking. – Nina Simone
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. – Bruce Springsteen
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. – Roy Ayers
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. – Henry David Thoreau
You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte
Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing. – Rebbe Nachman
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. – Criss Jami, Killisophy
If music be the food of love, play on. – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Life and love go on, let the music play. – Johnny Cash
Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch. – Debasish Mridha
